When Bill Clinton first ran for President in 1992, Hillary provided most of the couples income working for the Rose law firm in Little Rock; he earned only $35,000 a year as governor of Arkansas.

Although she takes in $165,200 a year as a senator, these days Bill is breadwinner-in-chief. His presidential pension is $201,000 a year, and he grabbed a $12 million advance for his 2001 memoir, My Life. (Her Living History won an advance of $8 million and $7 million in royalties.)

But its been Bills great gift for gab that has really feathered the Clintons nest. He earned an astounding $41 million speaking to groups and corporations in the first six years since he left office. Standard fee: $150,000. The fact that he may be married to the next President can only burnish his star power.

WHERE IT GOES

Until May 2007, the Clintons had cash and a blind trust. When Hillary launched her campaign, however, she (and Mitt Romney) had to unblind the trust to comply with Executive Branch rules, so the contents became public. The Clintons money was spread among 190 mostly large-cap stocks from A (Abbott Labs) to Y (Yahoo) with a sprinkling of New York State and U.S. bonds.

Jason Mirsky of RiskMetrics assessed the portfolio as aggressive but not foolish. A Black Monday event, he says, would have lost the Clintons about 16.5 percent of their portfolios value.

Anxious about potential conflicts, the Clintons sold everything but the U.S. bonds. Allan Roth of Wealth Logic estimates the move cost $500,000 to $1.8 million in taxes. They have done their fair share to shrink the budget deficit, he says.

HOW SHE COULD DO BETTER

The Clintons cash hoard leaves them exposed to inflation, says Roth. Federal and state taxes put them in the 40 percent bracket, so the after-tax net on a 5 percent yield would be only 3 percent.

The Clintons should invest half their money in the stock market, using broad index funds to avoid conflicts of interest. If they set up a new blind trust, they should confine themselves to 30 to 50 securities.

With the old portfolio, says Mirsky, they had a lot of fragmented positions that didnt do much but add to their transaction costs.

I think I am going to puke. What has she done to EARN $35 million? Nothing. Seems socialism pays well to the commies. For someone who hates capitalism so much, they aren’t doing too damned bad are they?

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posted on 12/15/2007 6:18:03 PM PST
by RetiredArmy
(Better prepare, come Nov 08, we have a Marxist Commissar President and Marxist Congress.)

Doesnt anyone wonder how it is these two grifters have come into that much money?

Those two certainly knew how to use the Presidency to their best advantage. They may not have been rich when they moved into the White house, but they were determined to be rich after they moved out. It's not hard, really. Especially if you are as unscrupulous as the Clintons.

Donations to the William J. Clinton Foundation jumped by nearly 70 percent since 2005, when the nonprofit raised more than $80 million. Contributions to the library have tripled since 2003, the year before Clinton's museum and archives opened in downtown Little Rock, Ark.

I'll just bet they have...

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posted on 12/15/2007 6:26:43 PM PST
by mewzilla
(In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams)

[Since 2000, according to published reports, the former veep has transformed himself from a public servant with around $1 million in the bank to a sparkling private consultant with a net worth estimated to be north of $100 million. Hes a senior adviser to Google, a board member at Apple and now a newly minted general partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, the Silicon Valley venture-capital firm that made billions investing early in Netscape, Amazon and Google.]

That's all??? Is Arkansas really that freaking poor? 15 years later, in 2007, as a Private First Class stationed in Germany, I make about $28,800 a year. We haven't had that much inflation!!

P.S.: I just realized, thanks to being in Germany, I now make more money than I did in my civilian job of four years ($24,648). Cool. Hey, and if you add in my signing bonus I received a few months ago of $7,000, then that would put me over Bill Clinton's $35,000. Plus, I'm supposed to get promoted in a month, too...

Not trying to brag, just thinking out loud.

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posted on 12/15/2007 6:33:20 PM PST
by tlj18
(Huckacide - the new kamikaze weapon. Defuse it while you have a chance!!!)

Al Gore is chief lobbyist for U.S. institutions and investors who are already buying up carbon units overseas at depressed prices. Once the U.S. joins the new treaty those carbon credits will go way up in value. They can be sold to U.S. utilities and manufacturers. California and nine other states are formulating a carbon trading system.

US INVESTORS WILLING TO TRY CARBON EMISSIONS TRADING11 Dec 2007

US investors believe carbon emissions trading is the best way of obtaining exposure to the climate change theme, despite the country not establishing a federal program on the issue.

More than a third, 40%, of the 150 participants at UK bank Barclays Capitals US commodities investor conference in New York last week said carbon trading would be their preferred way into the environmental markets.

I really don’t give a sh!t what this b!tch and her traitor husband are worth. After all, Bill never misses an opportunity to tell us he’s rich. Isn’t it funny though that “an evil, selfish” insurance company paid out the settlement to Paula Jones? Guess she should have waited until the bastard was out of office...

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